Economy Section :: Page 53

• Assistance available on home heating bills

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 5, 2011

  

  The Ohio Department of Development offers four programs to help low-income Ohioans with their heating bills.

• Increase in need seen among villagers

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 30, 2010

  According to the Village Utility Department Clerk Susie Butler, as of this week 181 local households are over 60 days behind in their utility bills.

• Schools look at fiscal crisis

  By Megan BachmanDecember 23, 2010

  In order to avoid a projected negative cash balance by the end of the 2013 fiscal year, school board members at their Dec. 9 meeting discussed ways to reduce the district’s 2010–2011 budget.

• Increased school district enrollment increases opportunities

  By Lauren Heaton

  Increasing local students means increasing local families, and while the village appears to provide a home for families at a variety of income levels, more housing in general could help to generate a school district population that is more sustainable.

• Local women who make a difference

  By Sehvilla Mann

  

  The organizers of 100 Women Making a Difference in Greene County want to make a difference in the lives of community members by donating most effectively to the nonprofits who serve them.

• Scented organic soap, naturally made

  By Sehvilla Mann

  

  Recently Chris Entler could be found in his new soap shop and studio in Kings Yard working on a new challenge: creating, with spearment leaves, an intricate design in a soap bar.

• Whey to go: local cheese arrives

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Those who prefer local foods can now add a variety of locally-produced cheese to their diets, thanks to two area dairies that have recently been turning fresh milk into cheese.

• Odiorne home to open soon

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 21, 2010

  

  Four area residents team up to preserve the historic home on the corner of Xenia Avenue and Herman Street, where an open house is slated to take place sometime early next year.

• Baldwin buys Kings Yard

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 16, 2010

  The sale of the long building of shops in Kings Yard that was auctioned off in April was finalized last week by the purchaser, Bob Baldwin.

• Faces of first-time buyers in YS

  By Megan Bachman

  Geno and Krystal Luketic are the sort of young couple that local leaders hope will settle in the village. However, while Geno continues his work at the pottery shop, the Luketics are no longer village residents.